Kebbi State Governor, Nasir Idris has said the security architecture currently in place in Nigeria is not working.
Governor Idris stated this when he hosted visiting Speaker of the House of Representatives, Abbas Tajudeen, at the Government House, Birnin-Kebbi, on Monday.
He again demanded also that the withdrawal of military personnel deployed to the Government Comprehensive Girls Secondary School, Maga, minutes before bandits abducted dozens of schoolgirls should be investigated
“How can over 500 bandits be moving on bikes on our highways without being checked? We are doing our obligations to the security agencies. We provide them with logistics, bought over 100 vehicles for them but their security architecture is not working.
“If we knew they would leave our girls for the bandits to take away, we wouldn’t have listened to the advice they gave us to deploy security personnel. We would have just shut down the school.
“I think some enemies are working to truncate this government and federal government; and the House must do something, especially about the lingering security situation in the country.
“Yesterday, it was Kebbi, today it is Niger and Kwara; who knows who is next? We must all see to it that this insecurity must be addressed.”
He demanded the military to change the tactics used in tackling insecurity.
Earlier, Speaker Tajudeen said he and the delegates from the House were in the state to commiserate with its people over the abduction of the schoolgirls and killing of the institution’s head of security.
The Speaker donated N30 million to the families of the head of security in the school and others.
He said “we are with you and we will continue to find how to secure the girls.”
